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Uses a gravity trade model to estimate the effects of child labour and education on exports from 1993 to 1999 …, evaluating total exports, total manufacturing exports and manufacturing exports broken down by labour and skill intensity of … education is good for exports, including for unskilled labour-intensive manufacturing exports for which results are generally …
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; considers implications of protectionism and slow economic growth in developed countries for the expansion of exports of …
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Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Ent-wicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als … auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu nied-rige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt …, die kollekti-ves Handeln ermöglichen. Übernimmt man hingegen einfach die Standards aus reichen Nationen, kann das …
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multilateral effects on all exports and imports. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the labour standards …Core labour standards defined by the ILO in 1998 are universal, but applied very differently across countries …. Compliance is much higher in high income countries. However, the causality between improved labour standards and economic growth …
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Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Entwicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als … auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu niedrige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt …, die kollektives Handeln ermöglichen. Übernimmt man hingegen einfach die Standards aus reichen Nationen, kann das …
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Argues that the changeover from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to the World Trade Organization (WTO) had little effect on industrialization policies of middle-income countries.
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Reviews the key economic characteristics of the globalization process and examines its impact on employment, poverty, inequality, global insecurity, child labour, gender issues and migration. Explores national and international policy responses, highlighting the importance of trade negotiations...
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standards as a new non-tariff barrier to trade. Investigates prospects for trade from the perspective of exporting countries in …
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Working paper on the impact of information technology on the role of service sectors in trade and commerce. Describes the trend towards the increasingly important economic role of telecommunications in providing services for the domestic market and international market. Explains the comparative...
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